14 Years After Their Disappearance, Family Of Tionda, Diamond Bradley Continues To Hold Vigils
(CBS) -- It has been 14 years since the disappearance of the two Bradley sisters - and today their great aunt is talking about why the family is still holding prayer vigils on the anniversary, year after year.
The great aunt of Tionda and Diamond Bradley, Shelia Bradley-Smith, says she has given in to reality.
"I don't believe they are alive anymore. I think it's a matter of finding where they are," she said.
She says if adults haven't come forward in these 14 years, then young adults - contemporaries of Diamond and Tionda - might step up.
The family has memorials every year, hoping this will be the year some young adult remembers something.
"The reason for continuously doing this each year is because a lot of those same kids who were Tionda's age then - they're now grown people...
"We're hoping that one somebody will remember that one missing part that says, 'You know what? I remember that. I remember seeing this. I remember seeing that.'"
Tionda Bradley would be 24 now; Diamond, 17.